The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-04-15

Returns to-. the commissioner of
| internal revenue show quite clearly an
increasing consumption Of beer and a
marked decrease in me amount of
whisky taken ont of bond.
A schooner which arrived Sunday at
ST. Johns reports that on March "a
the steamer Eagle was taking seal in
White bay. Her loss with three hun
red lives had been announced.
1t transpires that the late John
Kelley wrote a history of Mexico and
furnished the press clever biograph-
ical sketches of Tweed, Morrissey, land
other politicians of New York.
Fred Klndle, employed in tannery
at Cincinnati, walked into the hopper
of the bark-mill, and before the ma
chinery could be stopped his legs to
the knees were ground to pulp.
A mob of twenty-five men forced
the Jail at Ripley, Mississippi, on Sum
named Williamson, who had taken a
change of venue from Union county.
AT Hamilton, Ohio, on Friday, John
Hibner, Jr., assaulted Sheriff st. Clair,
who shot him in the breast, inflicting
a fatal wound. The senior Hibner
was defeated at the polls by Mr.. st.
Clair.
The semi-annual payment of annuity
to the Delaware Indians, made on
Wednesday at Vinita, was followed
by general debauch, and ended by
the murder of q white man by an
Indian.
A large party of stockbreeders
called at the White House, on Friday,
and invited President Cleveland to
attend the National horse, cattle, and
hog convention to be held next fall in
Chicago.
The nti-prohibitionists of Texas
will hold State convention at Dallas
on May 4, and John Hancock will state
his views. Three months later the
people will vote on the temperance
amendment.
The whisky pool has purchased the
capacity of the International distillery
at Des Moines for $4,000 per annum,
payable in monthly installmentS. Mr..
Kidd will discharge 1876 men, and close
up OH May Is.
The Beecher memorial committee of
Brooklyn has invited Rev. DR.. Joseph
Parker, of London, to cross the At
lantic and deliver an Grafton in June,
probably OH the birthday of the de-
ceased pastor.
Mrs. NJ. j. Russell, formerly princi-
pal of q female college in Toronto,
was arrested in Chicago for begging,
at the instance of General Chetlain,
who claims to have been greatly an
noyed by her.
Eugene Semple, who was appointed
governor of Washington territory, is
the son of former senator from Hi
nols. Samuel ID. Shannon, of Chey-
enne, was appointed secretary OF
Wyoming territory.
A large number of theatrical mana
gers met in Chicago Thursday to voice
their grievances against the interstate
commerce law, and appointed COM
mittee Of nine to prepare a memorial
to the commission.
BY the explosion of a kerosene lamp
at Bridgeport, Connecticut. twenty
three persons were driven into the
streets in their night-clothes. Four of
the number were injured by leaping OF
scorched by flames.
Patrick McCarty was hanged Friday
at Fort Smith, by the United States
marshal, for the murder of the Ma
honey brothers in Indian Territory.
Schade Scarborough was executed at
Clayton, Alabama.
Jay Gould was in st. Louis Monday
with Sidney Dillon and A. l.. Hopkins.
They inspected tract of land in the
southern suburbs said to have been
purchased as site for the Iron Noun
tain machine-shops.
Mrs. John Herbert, of Joliet, has
for three months lain as if dead, only
once in that period opening her eyes
and speaking. Fluids are forced into
her mouth. She appears like corpse,
and is reduced to q skeleton.
Louis Rebisso, of Cincinnati, has
secured q horse as q model for his
equestrian statue of General Grant
for Lincoln Park, Chicago. The ami
NAL came from Macon county, Ill
inois, and is sixteen hands high.
The commissioners appointed by
President Cleveland to investigate the
Pacific roads are Robert K. Pattison,
ex-governor of Pennsylvania; E. Ellrey
Anderson, an attorney of New York,
and David L. Littler, of Illinois.
1t appears that the recent death of
General Knock, the Russian COM
mander ut Warsaw, was case of
suicide, brought about by grief at the
arrest Of his son for completely in the
attempt to assassinate the car.
The anti-coercion meeting in Lon
don, OH Monday, was the largest ever
nelu III UudC CITY. n mOClOH pTOIeSJ-
ing against the coercion bill was offer
ed simultaneously from fourteen plat
forms, and was enthusiastically car
ried. Mrs. Gladstone, watching the
procession from a window in Picca-
Oily, received an ovation from the
men in line.
The statue of General Garfield
erected in Washington by the Society
Of the Army of the Cumberland will
be unveiled on May II. The pedestal
has been erected at the intersection of
First street and Maryland avenue.
The report Of the Department of
Agriculture for April regarding the
condition of winter grain and the COM
parative healthfulness of farm ami
mails, compares favorably with the
corresponding reports of late years.
Live stock freights eastward from
Chicago remain substantially the same
as before the Interstate commerce
law took effect. 1t is said that the
rate on distillery cattle from Peoria
has been advanced from 80 to 1924 per
car.
At Richmond, Indiana, about day
LIGHT Sunday Mrs Jonas Rennett